OREANDA-NEWS. March 4, 2011. The BCSE informs about the foreign currency trade totals in February 2011.

The transaction turnover in February 2011 amounted to Br 4 272.70 billion (Br 3 833.90 billion in January 2011). The February trade volume increased 11.4 % compared to January.

USD 906.17 million, RUB 7 233.69 million, EUR 190.37 million and other currency amounting to Br 11 109.42 million in equivalent were sold at the trades.

The unit weight of foreign currency in the trade volume was USD – 64.0 %, RUB –17.4%, EUR –18.3 %, and other currencies –0.3 %.

Average daily transaction volume amounted to USD 47.69 million, RUB 380.72 million and                      EUR 9.52 million.

February quotations changed as follows: RUB +2.14 points, USD +7.00 points, EUR +58.00 points.

Тable 1. foreign currency trade totals in February 2011

Currency

Quotations

Demand

Supply

Trade volume

Trade volume

in thousands

in thousands

in thousands

Br in millions

Russian rouble

19

6 636 341

7 224 911

7 233 686

745 180.182

US Dollar

19

935 660

723 838

906 166

2 733 049.358

Euro

20

188 622

183 872

190 370

783 363.972

Swiss Frank

14

2 244

2 129

2 359

7 596.328

GB Pound

6

19

36

43

210.522

Zloty

10

453

318

453

517.892

Yen

4

74 052

75 290

75 290

2 778.542

Canadian Dollar

1

3

2

2

6.138

Тable 2. top 10 foreign currency trade participants

according to the transaction volume conducted at the bcse in February 2011.

Rate

Trade parti­cipant

 

National Bank

 

Savings Bank Belarusbank

 

Priorbank

 

Bank Moscow-Minsk

 

BPS-Bank

 

Belagroprombank

 

BELROSBANK

 

Belinvestbank

 

Belgazprombank

 

Bank VTB (Belarus)